Indian chess star Viswanathan Anand suffered a shock loss to next World Championship challenger Magnus Carlsen of Norway in the fifth round and slipped to the joint seventh spot in the Tal Memorial Tournament here.Playing the last classical game against Ca
Netherlands thrashed the Indian hockey team 8-1. The Indian women’s hockey team put up yet another disappointing show to crash out of the semifinal race with a 1-8 drubbing at the hands of top-ranked Netherlands in the FIH World League Round 3 here.The
A Super Over will be played to determine the winner if a semifinal or the final of the Champions Trophy ends in a tie. Section 21.10.2 of the ICC playing conditions for the Champions Trophy states: “If a semifinal is tied, the teams shall compete in a Supe
And yet again, Sri Lanka finds itself near the finish line of another major tournament. The 2013 Champions Trophy may have begun inauspiciously for Angelo Mathews’ men, with a wafer-thin loss to New Zealand but it has been a familiar tale of resurgence the
Prominent cycling coach Ruma Chattopadhyay died in a hit-and-run case early on Tuesday morning. The tragic incident happened when chief coach Ruma, training the cyclists for the UCI juniors track World championship (in Glasgow from August 7 to 11) on th
How has grass-court tennis evolved? The grass itself is not like what I played on in the 1970s. It’s of a completely different texture and much slower. The game as a result is being played completely from the baseline. But with the racquets getting more
Five-time Wimbledon champion Venus Williams has pulled out of the grass-court Grand Slam tournament because of a lower back injury. Williams’ agent, Carlos Fleming, said Wimbledon was told of her decision on Tuesday. Williams was bothered by her back duri
Iran won 1-0 at South Korea on Tuesday in a result that secured both teams a spot at next year’s World Cup, but the hosts only just scraped through and had to wait until after the final whistle to know their fate. Iran finished top of Group A in the ...
